Boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in postwar America -- Italian American identity and politics: World War II to the Cold War -- The Italian American immigration reform lobby -- Refugees and relatives: Italian Americans and the Refugee Relief Act -- Resettlement assistance and "a new standard of living" -- The Corsi Affair -- From refugee relief to family reunification -- The end of the national origins system and the limits of white ethnic liberalism -- The deep roots of white ethnicity, 1965 and beyond
Summary
This text looks at Italian American campaigns to reform American immigration laws from 1945 to 1965. It argues that even while Italian Americans were members of a coalition that pushed for liberal immigration reforms, their campaigns reflected a mix of liberalism and conservatism. Italian American immigration reformers invoked both secular principles of democratic liberalism and arguments based on Catholic social thought to call for a more humane and equal system of regulating immigration than the one in place based on a system of National Origins quotas
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2019)
